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Farming & the land, 1879

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The Rev. M. Gray's Lecture, on the Pastoral

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 9

On Thursday evening last the Rev. Mr. Gray delivered his previously announced lecture on the Pastoral, in the School of Arts, Kempsey. The Rev. Mr. Paterson was voted into the…

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The Wool Market in Berlin

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 550

From the notes of a tour through Europe in course of publication in the Canterbury Times by an intelligent and observant old colonist, we learn much that is interesting in connection with the wool market in…

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Pastoral Letter by the Archbishop of Sydney Catholic EDUCATION.—No. 4

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 17

ROGER BEDE, by the Grace of God and the Favour of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan, to the Clergy, Secular and Regular, and the faithful of the said…

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The Roman Pastoral and the Great Apostacy. (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 6

SIRS,--I have just read the second pastoral letter in the Herald's issue of the 22nd ultimo, with mixed feelings of abhorrence, humiliation, and satisfaction. Abhorrence and humiliation…

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Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 21

[We shall be happy to receive from practical fanners such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…

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Farm and Garden. Pigs and Their Management

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 2

THE sow especially should be healthy, as she influences the internal organisation general vigour, and endurance of th offspring. The most prolific sows…

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The Farm & STATION Agriculture in England. [From Our Special Correspondent.]

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 10

IT is 115 years, we are told, since a season equal to the past in duration and intensity of cold has been experienced in Great Britain. The season of 1860, which is well within the recollection of the writer, had a longer…

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Farming and Veterinary Notes. the Colours of Thorough-bred Horses

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 18

IN "The Book of the Horse," the author says:—"The modern thorough-bred horse is most commonly bay, frequently chestnut, less frequently brown, rarely black, and still more rarely roan, and scarcely ever grey…

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Wages for Permanent Labourers on Farms. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 27

SIR,—I see in your last week's issue of T. AND C. JOURNAL, an article headed " Wages for permenent labourers on farms & c.," signed "Honest Tom former, near Orange," in which he states, that first-[?] men are to be got to any…

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Farm and Garden Memoranda for October

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 20

A SEPTEMBER SO rainy as the month has been this year has rarely, if ever, been experienced in New South Wales. In our memoranda for the month, we spoke of the season as one which could not be…

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To-morrow's Sheep Sales

Evening News · Tuesday 7 October 1879 · page 3

The sales to be held is the International Sheep Sheds are fixed for to-morrow (Wednesday), and a very good lot of jumbucks are to be ofered by Messrs. Mort and Co., and Harrison, Jones, and…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 October 1879 · page 7

Since our last summary was prepared very little change has taken place in agricultural matters. The weather on the whole has been very favourable ; in fact it has been all the farmers could…

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Sheep Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 October 1879 · page 6

The sales in connection with the International Show of sheep and swine commenced yesterday morning at 11. Mr. Abbott, for Mort and Co., was the first to occupy the rostrum, and the merino sheep of Mr. James…

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The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 October 1879 · page 8

Spring, so far as it has advanced, is proving genial and favourable to agriculturists and pastoralists. The weather of the past week has been dry and sultry, but yesterday steady rain fell in some of the Southern districts and around…

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Sheep Sales at the Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 9 October 1879 · page 2

Owing to the state of the weather there was only a small att[?]dance at yesterday's sheep sales at the International Exhibition. Messrs. Trebeck and Maiden, Hill, and Clark offered several pens, but they…

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The Darling Wool Season

Evening News · Thursday 9 October 1879 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Thursday.-Upwards of 5000 bales of river wool have already arrived at Goolwa Most of it comes from the New South Wales side of the Darling…

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International Show of Sheep and Swine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 October 1879 · page 7

The first of the series of stock shows to be held in connection with the Grand International Exhibition comprising sheep, swine, goats, and alpacas, was opened on the 30th ultimo, and closed on the 8th instant…

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Sale of Stud Sheep at the Exhibition

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 October 1879 · page 5

The sale of stud sheep exhibited at the late show took place in the Agricultural Hall yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. The first lot offered for sale by Mr. Abbott, for Mort and Co., were the…

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Another Pastoral on Education

Evening News · Friday 10 October 1879 · page 2

This afternoon Archbishop Vaughan's fifth pastoral on education was issued. A resume will appear in our second edition…

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Emigration of English Farmers

Evening News · Friday 10 October 1879 · page 3

The fact that the Rational Steamship Company's steamer Helvetia has just sailed from Liverpool with 80 farmers from the northern counties, bound for Texas, marks the…

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